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Date:      Thu, 2 Dec 1999 10:38:28 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
Cc:        Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Tape driver problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912021036560.369-100000@semuta.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <199912021834.LAA50772@panzer.kdm.org>

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> 
> I know you didn't.  But if I didn't make that qualification, from previous
> experience I can guess that I would get mail from a few people complaining
> about some problem they have with their aha board.  I was just trying to
> take some preventative action.

Yes, and not sending email would have worked too! :-)

> 
> > > more than 64K at a time.  So you shouldn't be using any more than that.
> > 
> > Nonsense. That's what bounce buffers can or *should* be used for too.
> 
> Well, talk to Warner about it.  You could probably use bounce buffers to
> handle the problem.  For now, though, I think 64K is the lowest common
> denominator.

Oh, goody! We can make FreeBSD as retarded as Solaris/SunOS then! Even
better, let's make the limit 63Kbytes for compatibility with Solaris/SunOS
and I can go back to automatically typing 'tar cvb 126...'..... 

-matt





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